Author: Freedom Watch

Bad news for Silicon Valley: William Barr is taking control of antitrust probes By Leah Nylen POLITICO March 3, 2020 Attorney General William Barr has spent months taking greater control of the Justice Department’s antitrust probes into the big tech companies, a development that could increase the peril for major players like Google and Facebook. Barr has centralized oversight of antitrust matters under a handful of appointees in his office and that of his deputy attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen. Those moves have sidelined the Antitrust Division’s current leadership, headed by Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim, who for the…

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POLITICO March 3, 2020 Roger Stone looked like a man on edge, under extreme stress and struggling to contain pent-up fury. The GOP provocateur was just days away from finding out his fate from a criminal case that drew nationwide attention, that the president was openly complaining about. And to the world, Stone was largely silent, mostly gagged by the judge who handled his federal trial.

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Federal judge rules Cuccinelli appointment unlawful By Rebecca Rainey POLITICO March 2, 2020 A D.C.-based federal judge ruled Sunday that President Donald Trump’s appointment of Ken Cuccinelli as acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services director violated the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, a decision that suspends two policies Cuccinelli implemented while leading the agency. Cuccinelli, an immigration hard-liner who was previously attorney general in Virginia, became acting head of USCIS in June, assuming the newly created role of “principal deputy director.” In November, Cuccinelli also assumed the position of “senior official performing the duties of the deputy secretary” at…

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Ukraine investigators open case into Joe Biden’s role in firing of top prosecutor Washington Examiner February 29, 2020 Ukrainian investigators have begun an inquiry into then-Vice President Joe Biden over allegations that he pressured officials into firing a top prosecutor in 2016. A case revolving around Biden, now a Democratic candidate for president, was opened by the State Bureau of Investigations on a court order following a January appeal for action by Viktor Shokin, the dismissed prosecutor general’s lawyer, Oleksandr Teleshetsky, told the Washington Post. “They need to investigate this. They have no other alternative. They are required…

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By Larry Klayman WND February 28, 2020 One thing that you have to give the left credit for: It is very good at using the media to destroy anyone in its path. Historically, the left has dominated nearly every nation’s press, the most infamous example being Adolf Hitler’s Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels. Remember and take it to the bank that the Nazi regime was called the National Socialist Party — with an emphasis on socialism, that is, total state control. That explains why Hitler feared competition from the Josef Stalin, general secretary of the Communist Party in…

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